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Regime forces step up aerial campaign on Idlib province

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime stepped up its aerial bombing on the rebel-held Idlib province, leaving huge destruction, local activist said Thursday.

Idlib Media Center said the strikes targeted villages of Maer Shamarin, Deri Sharqi, Kinda and al-Najiya and al-Tamaneh town.

On Wednesday, 4 people, including 3 children, were killed in regime air strikes on Khan Sheikhoun own  in the southern countryside of Idlib.

In relevant development, regime air strikes have killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 10 others overnight, one of them seriously, the Turkish military said on Thursday.

The attack occurred at around 3:30 am (0030 GMT) in the course of a Turkish-led Syrian rebel operation in Aleppo countryside, the army statement said. It said the wounded soldiers were evacuated rapidly from the area.

It would be the first time Turkish soldiers are known to have been killed by Syrian government forces in the offensive, dubbed Euphrates Shield, which was launched on Aug. 24.

The operation aims to push Islamic State militants, as well as the Kurdish YPG militia, away from the Syrian side of Turkey's border and has advanced to near the city of al-Bab, which is controlled by the jihadists.

Earlier, security and hospital sources in Turkey said Islamic State fighters had carried out an attack which killed three Turkish soldiers in the al-Bab region.

They said the wounded soldiers were transferred to hospitals in the Turkish border provinces of Kilis and Gaziantep. (With Reuters)

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